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Originally Posted by BillyMac
Lying to kids for a good reason isn't always bad? Right? Santa Claus?
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As a five year old child, had an adult next door neighbor take us to a beach "known to have pirate treasure". All the neighbor kids found "Silver" coins along the water's edge on the sand. Of course, we didn't know the difference between "planted" quarters and real pirate silver coins.
Note: Stony Creek, where we visited the beach, and the Thimble Islands, on Long Island Sound in Connecticut, were actually visited by Captain William Kidd’s ship, the Adventure Galley, in the 1690s, so he wasn't really lying.
Same neighbor took neighborhood kids for a long walk in the woods to visit a "Haunted House", and we spotted "Bear Poop" on the trail. How were we supposed to know that it was a horse trail, the house was just an ordinary dilapidated abandoned house, and that back then there were few, if any, bears in that part of suburban Connecticut (if any bears at all in the entire state back then)?